Title Evaluation of State‘s Financial Benefits from Centralization of Public Procurement (the case of Lithuania) /
Translation of Title Viešųjų pirkimų centralizavimo finansinės naudos valstybei vertinimas (Lietuvos atvejis).
Authors Šerpytis, Karolis
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Keywords [eng] Public procurement ; centralization of purchases ; public sector ; auction theory
Abstract [eng] World financial and economic crisis encouraged government institutions to find ways for more efficient organization of public procurement. Therefore there is growing interest in public procurement centralization process. In the dissertation there are analyzed economic, management and law aspects of public procurement centralization. The aim of the dissertation is to create a model for evaluating state’s financial benefits from centralization of public procurement and to evaluate these benefits in the case of Lithuania. By generalizing scientific literature there are abstracted elements influencing formation of financial benefits from centralization of public procurement, also there are advantages and disadvantages of public procurement centralization being analyzed. By synthesizing scientific knowledge of purchasing management and auction theory, few hypotheses are raised to explain differences in prices between centralized and decentralized public procurement. Empirical research of public procurement centralization was conducted and based on research results evaluation of Lithuanian state financial benefits from public procurement centralization was carried out. Also causes of price differences between centralized and decentralized public procurement were defined. Generalization of research results enabled to do prediction of development for public procurement centralization.
Type Summaries of doctoral thesis
Language English
Publication date 2012